Ingmar Bergman's Dead

The original article is a bit long but i liked very much one of the comments that made Bergman himself, when someone asked the following:

Once, when asked by the critic Andrew Sarris why he did what he did, Bergman told the story of the rebuilding of Chartres Cathedral in the Middle Ages by thousands of anonymous artisans.

clipped from www.iht.com "I want to be one of the artists of the cathedral that rises on the plain," he said. "I want to occupy myself by carving out of stone the head of a dragon, an angel or a demon, or perhaps a saint; it doesn't matter; I will find the same joy in any case. Whether I am a believer or an unbeliever, Christian or pagan, I work with all the world to build a cathedral because I am artist and artisan, and because I have learned to draw faces, limbs, and bodies out of stone. I will never worry about the judgment of posterity or of my contemporaries; my name is carved nowhere and will disappear with me. But a little part of myself will survive in the anonymous and triumphant totality. A dragon or a demon, or perhaps a saint, it doesn't matter!"